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Mirrors Edge, bright, blissful and beautiful… well that’s what they want you to see as Faith (the main character) and regularly points out like Hitler on his views of the Jews.
Mirrors edge is a 1st person free running game which has a hint of beat em up and FPS but these aspects of the game are gittery and have issues like a unloved teenager and for once that’s not a problem .. Not the unloved teenager, the game issues because they try to and succeed in covering it up by the innovative 1st Person Free running aspect,
it breaths a whole new life into video games as a lot of the times in games it comes down to skill and in this there’s that and the sheer dumb luck because on more than a thousand occasions I have been sitting there not wanting to look at the screen as I’m scared I’ll miss the really small ledge and hear the oncoming SPALT of the now faithless faith changing from a human being into a small puddle of red gooey stuff that will leave the janitor wonder what the hell it was before the impact (his nearest guess is a elephant as I imagine the blood splatter is pretty big)

Free-running you will have to find your own way... route will NOT be higlighted in red

Also in a side note the game is weird in another way as well as the before mentioned elephant splat and that is that the control scheme is very left hand dominant were most games are right hand (like cod you aim with left shoot with right, GTA accelerate the rhino handled car with the right brake with the left get the idea?) and here the jumping and crouching is all with the left and the jump is the time bumper which is one of the worse things to have to hit when you’re running away every law enforcer in the local vicinity chasing you down like you stole a loaf of bread in ye old England.

The story is pretty good considering that the majority of bug eyed nerds won’t take it on the story as they will strip it down to the perverted nudity and try to rip the mechanics apart and it will be missed on them. The scenery you’re running around is quite frankly beautiful and amazing and best of all believable thanks to the story, as if it wasn’t it would be like yeah its beautiful but it would never happen and thank god they got it right as it pulls you into the game like a lion pulling a lonely hunter into his den.

On another note the music by Lisa Miskovsky is …..Well…Amazing… I remember getting worked up because I couldn’t make a jump stick on the track and it washes calm over you like a wave it’s amazing and it makes the ending just amazing…. It is a game that people will either love or hate as its new it has bugs and glitches every now and then and its “different” from other games but I loved it, I can see why people would hunt it down like it was a witch in ye old Britain but for me it was not the case…outside of the game you can re run the game to a time trail and you have another mode where its basically the same but with different courses and no police so it’s just a nice little thing if you want to just go for a free run without the fear of getting shot in the ARSE!!

The Good

Its Beautiful,
Innovative,
The music is amazing.. And not cheesy,
The free running,
That split second where you’re on the highest point of the whole game and look over the city and just stare in amazement you just need to cue awesome music and it could possibly be one of the best moments of gaming … EVER

The Bad

The falling to your death,
The police are evil in the time trial,
There’s police everywhere,
Running inside is bad

The ugly

That nasty elephant shaped innards  splatter that killed that old lady on that one miss judged jump

Well killing the elephants out the way.... How do you eat one!!!